I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber.

I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table.

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

Come close now,' ordered Fenworth. 'Time for an exit. I think we'll whirl, Kale likes to whirl. Hold hands. Let's stay together, children. I want no one lost.

Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

I'm still trying to learn how to do it, I'm still trying to figure out how to make films, but, yeah, it started then [in 1979].

The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.